Blog.

We thought we might have some kind of new introduction this year, again, but how can we, the year is the year it is, and was, and so in an otherwise not terribly great year in so many ways, for so many people, there was still good, because there is always good, and there were books, and television, music and movies. Though not enough, never enough, of any of it. But we did what we could, and here we are, ignoring so much of the year, if only for a moment, to look back, and share what there is, and what there was, with you, now, totally.

Memoirs that sing. And also explore sickness, nostalgia, pop culture and everything in between.

Love Sick/Cory Martin, Old Records Never Die/Eric Spitznagel, Harbors/Donald QuistShort story collections, so many, and so wonderful.

Staggerwing/Alice Kaltman, Superman On The Roof/Lex Williford, mesogeios/Steve Karas, Maybe Mermaids and Robots Are Lonely/Matt Fogarty, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone/Sequoia Nagamatsu, I'm Not Supposed To Be Here And Neither Are You/Len Kuntz, When I Return To You, I Will Be Unfed/Christopher Bowen

Books as collaboration which continues to be a thing we totally support.

Rift/Kathy Fish and Robert Vaughan and and turns still the sun at dusk blood-red/Christopher Cunningham and Hosho McCreesh.

Novels too. A lot. And wonderful.

The Fugue/Gint Aras, Single Stroke Seven/Lavinia Ludlow, The Reactive/Masande Ntshanga, The Revolution of Everyday/Cari Luna, The History of Great Things/Elizabeth Crane, Swarm Theory/Christine Rice, Anamakee/Garret Schuelke, The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong/Leland Cheuk, The Good Divide/Kali VanBaale, Above All Men/Eric Shonkwiler

Only one graphic novel, unfortunately, but wow did it kick-ass.

The Incantations of Daniel Johnston by the Ricardo Cavalo and Scott McClanahan.

The movies we are happy we got to see during a year where we did even better than last year, though still didn't see enough to satisfy our movie Jones.

Midnight Special, Hidden Figures, Don't Think Twice, Deadpool

Movies we are happy we got to see because our children wanted us to.

Captain America: Civil War, Dr. Strange, Edge of Seventeen

Documentaries that jammed. Not that we saw enough of them.

O.J.: Made in America, Weiner

Documentaries that we are sure jammed and must see post-haste.

13th

Movies just bad that our children really wanted to see. Sadly.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, X-Men: Apocalypse

More movies just bad that our children really wanted to see, though yes, we did too. Sadly. That said, Margot Robbie and Will Smith still killed.

Suicide Squad

The best crafted movies of the year that weren't quite our favorite movie of the year.

Manchester by the Sea, La La Land, Fences, Arrival, Hell or High Water

And a well-crafted movie that just might be our favorite movie of the year.

Moonlight

Movies we still hope to see.

Jackie, Nocturnal Animals, Sully, Loving

Books published by Curbside Splendor that we quite dug and may have only been partially biased towards as we read them.

Most finally, there are many people to thank for making this a good year in spite of all that has been going on and feels like still will be. And we are most definitely overlooking some, a lot maybe, and we apologize for that, but there you go.